Ayda Tree, Dagger, Remembrance 1965 , Ahmad ShamluAhmad Shamlou also known under his pen name A Bamdad December 12, 1925 July 23, 2000 was an Iranian poet, writer, and journalist Shamlou was arguably the most influential poet of modern Iran His initial poetry was influenced by and in the tradition of Nima Youshij Shamlou s poetry is complex, yet his imagery, which contributes significantly to the intensity of his poems, is simple As the base, he uses the traditional imagery familiar to his Iranian audience through the works of Persian masters like Hafiz and Omar Khayy m For infrastructure and impact, he uses a kind of everyday imagery in which personified oxymoronic elements are spiked with an unreal combination of the abstract and the concrete thus far ...